How to cure the City’s depression? Some retail investor therapy fraser thorne The London Stock Exchange needs wide reform, but recentering the role of retail investors could be a shot in the arm, writes Fraser Thorne.
DEBATE: Are overseas private equity bids good news for the UK? Morrisons has accepted a £7bn bid from US private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice. The fierce competition from US investors to buy the British supermarket giant has prompted concerns over what an injection of foreign money would mean for the high street stalwart. Ewan MacKinnon and Fraser Thorne take on the debate: Ewan MacKinnon, [...]
DEBATE: Will long-term remote working jeopardise London’s status as a global financial centre? Will long-term remote working jeopardise London’s status as a global financial centre? Giles Fuchs, chief executive of Office Space in Town, says YES. An enduring shift towards remote working and away from the office in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic would spell disaster for London’s status as a global financial hub. Home to 1.1m [...]
